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For me, work means utilizing all available tools, knowledge, and options to achieve a goal. You will need to dedicate time and effort regularly to acquire or to become better at them. Sometimes, in specific projects, these tools, methods...
Dzisiaj wpis techniczny. Z tego wpisu na blogu Tymoteusza Jóźwiaka dowiedziałem się, że na Mikrusie istnieje coś, co nazywa się Cytrus, czyli osobna od samego Mikrusowego VPSa przestrzeń do hostowania stron internetowych - po szczegóły...
At this time of the year, my world always begins to lose its voice. Not because the crushing weight of bureaucracy muffles it, but because the elements are putting the acoustics of my soundscape to sleep for a little while. At least,...
I woke up yesterday sick as hell. I don't even know how it got so bad, since I was completely fine the day before. It wasn't until almost noon did I muster the strength to slog to campus for breakfast. It's only a five-minute walk, but...
November 2025. Thurnham. Maidstone. Into posh Kent and the North Downs we go, for a night in Rye before opera with the in-laws. There may be something in that last sentence to make you a tad jealous. I’m betting it’s not opera. A...
Somebody made a post to the idea of using your fine china. (They applied it to stickers that eventually lose their stickiness, if you don't use them.) I replied: There's an old hymn that starts: Earth holds no treasures but perish with...
For this month's Bear Blog Carnival, Absurd Pirate asks, what's in your inventory? Without further ado, here are the things that would come spilling out of my body if this was a video game and you jumped me: hygiene kit A packet of...
Grey is defined as the following by The American Heritage Dictionary: adjective Of or relating to an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white. adjective Dull or dark. adjective Lacking in cheer; gloomy...
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted by severing the body and the mind, we are bleeding with a Cartesian cleft of our own making — the damaging divide between life and work. The notion of...
This is the story of how my text file became a key developer resource for Europes’s largest airline. This week ten years ago I was in Skibbereen, Co. Westcork for the inaugural National Digital Week, a four day event organised by...
Well, two weeks in a row is a streak, right? Good. Work Our year is almost over, and my time is wrapping up. The last of the writer’s work will be handed in on the 14th, and then next week we’ll edit and audit the last articles of the...
First snow of the season and it's still fall. The light dusting didn't last terribly long. Currently Listening: Fred again.., Ezra Collective, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso “Beto’s Horns, Ezra Remix”Reply via email
67 has been named word of the year by dictionary.com: If you’re the parent of a school-aged child, you might be feeling a familiar vexation at the sight of these two formerly innocuous numerals. If you’re a member of Gen Alpha, however,...
I am back from Berlin after spending a few days last week at Beyond Tellerrand where I was a speaker! It was my first time attending as well. Before that, in September, I did the same talk in Freiburg at Smashing Conference. In both...
I am scared of the point in disability when you are seemingly just living for other people, not yourself. The point where all of your personal goals and dreams have been shattered, developing a new identity is gatekept by your abilities...
A list of more interesting seed vendors in Aotearoa
“In Fall 2022, we had four students majoring or minoring in Philosophy; today we have 31.” That’s Paul Butterfield, assistant professor of philosophy at Alfred University in New York. He adds, “we estimate that, over five years, we will...
Earlier this year, my sweetie and I made a little trip to nearby Strasbourg. Not only because I really like the city and its French flair (she has never been there before), but also because I had never set foot in the European Parliament...
On Hacker News “best” for today at #5 is a link to XSLT RIP which leads to Killed by Google, a fantastic case in point for my recent post E-mail as social media. How many social media services has Google sunset? I count at least 12,...
I'm progressing though the Hainish cycle in a semi-swift pace, but I have yet to be wowed. City of Illusions is the third in the cycle, but also the last of the first trilogy. Just to make it a bit more confusing than it should. League...
How to handle freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in climate models, where there isn't an ice sheet model component? A new paper just out reveals all...
Memories of the Wind Fish were our encounters a world unto themselves whose sprawling narrative speaks of the moment's beauty
It's the end of 2025, which means that I'm closing in on three years at Val Town. I haven't written much about the company or what it's really been like. The real story of companies is usually told well after years after the dust has...
This article covers the changes in NIST’s July 2025 revision of the Digital Identity Guidelines for authentication (SP 800-63B-4), why they matter, and how to update your policies and controls accordingly. It is aimed at security...
The web is a continuum, not a platform. Alex Russell, Google Chrome team A couple weeks ago, I started a brand new web project I call Record Rack. It's an inventory application that I'm working on with an old college mate specifically...
I was today years old when I learned why Lionel Hutz hasn't spoken since 1998
Problem statement: Given LLM keys shell environment variables: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY GEMINI_API_KEY OPENAI_API_KEY Export them only when they are needed. When are they needed? If I launch any one of these binaries: llm (generic) aider...
When he’s not keeping the clocks of the Paris train station in the name of his missing uncle, Hugo Cabret steals parts of clockwork toys from the toy shop at the station. The lonely boy’s most precious possession is an automaton that his...
The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and demands nothing ever changing. The...
I see that it was 100 years ago today that Richard Burton (né Richard Walter Jenkins Jr) was born – that would explain why I happened upon Under Milk Wood on the radio the other day (and felt no kindlier towards it for having heard it...
the concept of comparative scale breaks down at infinity. we demonstrate through a thought experiment how we can not establish scale and measure distances with infinity as a reference.
I remember when I first heard about 'productivity' from a popular YouTuber, Ali Abdaal. I was immediately hooked to his content, and I started following his advice to improve my 'productivity'. It was exciting to see that I could be as...
I've made a wallpaper inspired by the icon Mac "hello" and Liquid Glass.
As I mentioned in my Upcoming talks in autumn 2025 post recently, I'll be attending and speaking at UKISUG Connect. I have a couple of sessions, a hands-on workshop on the Sunday and a technical track talk on the Monday. In this post I...
This week’s Nonfiction November festivities are being hosted over on Liz’s site Adventures in reading, running, and working from home, with the prompt being: “Book Pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title....
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 172 mm focal length – 1/250″ at f/7.1 – ISO 800 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
Last.fm circa 2003; via Last.fm Flickr account. What we now know as the “social web” — or Web 2.0 — didn’t arrive until around 2004. But the first inklings of it were emerging a couple of years before. As usual, music was the harbinger....
Things have been so bad/weird, reading-wise, I had forgotten entirely that I had been offered this ARC at some point this year. Beware: suicide; narcissist ex; once again equating evil with mental illness; swearing; sex on page; white...
Jesse Singal posted the other day about an academic named Peter Coviello who denounced David Brooks for saying something silly when in fact Brooks was outlining a position that he disagrees with. (Follow the link for the details). Singal...
Google wants XSLT dead 2025-11-11 Yesterday I talked about RSS. RSS feeds tend to be powered by XML, a language sort of like HTML, but not exactly. That is why, when you click on a “RSS” link on a website, your browser either downloads a...
Respect of nature is one of the main principles of Japanese culture. Carving your name in a bamboo tree is a good way to injure or even kill it. Defacing trees in the Bamboo Grove is one of many factors driving recent anti-foreigner...
Anime News Network reports that “The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie, the compilation film of the television anime … will get a theatrical elease in the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and additional Central...
Here are my weeknotes from November 4 to 10, 2025!
Bản dịch tiếng Việt thông cáo báo chí Berkshire Hathaway ngày 10/11/2025 và thông điệp Lễ Tạ ơn của Warren Buffett.
Mi fecha de nacimiento está muy lejos de los 80s pero aún así esta música me trae nostalgia y la razón es porque sí crecí escuchándola, solo que a través de mis padres. En el carro poníamos un disco de mixes de los 80s con canciones como...